This thesis examines the connections between reading and the imagination in
George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. The ideal
imagination, for Eliot, is both sympathetic and reality-infused, ...

This dissertation investigates John Henry Newman's understanding of the imagination and its role in religious and aesthetic experience. Newman’s fictional and poetic works fell into the background in scholarly discussions ...

This study explores the ways in which John Ruskin’s artistic and social criticism illuminate persuasive elements in Wendell Berry’s fiction, primarily his three major novels: A Place on Earth, Hannah Coulter, and Jayber ...

This dissertation argues that encounters with the beauty of being stand at the heart of Chesterton's novels; through his characters' ability to imaginatively encounter the forms around them, Chesterton's fiction offers ...